The memory of Ignatius of Antioch: the martyr as a locus of Christian identity, remembering and remembered by MacDiarmid, F

“…The long recension has received only meagre scholarly attention, so my work constitutes a significant contribution to Ignatian scholarship with regard to this corpus in particular. …”

The accountability state: US federal inspectors general and the pursuit of democratic integrity, 1978-2012 by Hilliard, N

“…However, the success of the IGs in effecting accountability, and the import of the kind of accountability they bring, has been little studied by public administration scholars; much of the existing scholarship offers, at best, qualified endorsement of their work. …”

Challenging the calligraphy canon: the reception of rubbing collections in Ming China by Ng, SW

“…In general, recent scholarship on rubbing collections holds that rubbing collections often transmitted important and highly recognized works which represented the classical tradition or calligraphy canon. …”

'A terrible war of defence' - examining the role of dehumanisation in genocidal mobilisation by Owen, L

“…Based on the correlation between the incidence of dehumanisation and the forms of genocidal violence, as well as relevant social psychology scholarship, I argue that it was effective in promoting campaigns of mass extermination. …”

Precarity and persistence in Canada's company province by LeBlanc, E

“…Contemporary scholarship of neoliberalism tends to emphasize its ubiquity, underscoring capitalism’s permeation into life’s most intimate spheres. …”

Music in the urban Amazon: a historical ethnography of the Manaus opera house by McMahon, R

“…This thesis responds to this state of affairs and to recent scholarship that draws critical attention to which parts of the globe have their human histories widely recognised and which do not. …”

Learning to serve time: troubling spaces of working class masculinities in the UK by Maguire, D

“…Considering that men commit most crime and, in the UK, account for over 95% of the prison population, there is relatively little scholarship that explores the links between masculinity and crime and almost a dearth of ethnographic enquiry into the links between the social construction of masculinities and incarceration. …”

Attitudes towards infertility in early modern England and colonial New England, c. 1620-1720 by Benoit, M

“…This thesis contributes to a growing body of scholarship on infertility in early modern society by analysing its presence in communications within and between early modern England and colonial New England. …”

Our journal, our intellectual home by Schmitt, BH, Cotte, J, Giesler, M, Stephen, AT, Wood, S

“…<p>The&nbsp;<em>Journal of Consumer Research</em>&nbsp;(<em>JCR</em>) is not only the premier outlet for the best scholarship in consumer research. It is also the intellectual home of the global consumer research community. …”

Porous borders: the amorphous nature of magical realist fiction in Asia and Australasia by Holgate, B

“…I supplement existing scholarship of magical realism with new paradigms of critical thought, such as epistemology, mythopoeia, ecocriticism, intertextuality and discourse on human rights. …”

Make it orijinal: literary modernism and the novel on the Turkish-British axis 1908-1948 by Staudt, K

“…Building on the insights of the global turn in modernist scholarship, I argue that the Turkish novel in the early 20th century offers unique insight into the relationship between state-sponsored, westernizing modernity and literary experimentation. …”

The reformed theology of Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) by Arnold, J, Jonathan W Arnold

“…Despite this self-identification, modern scholarship has largely relegated Keach to a self-educated dissenting pastor whose major achievement could be found in his controversial support of hymn singing. …”

Following Libor: financial benchmarks, law, and the government of economic life by Haskew, M

“…But while these issues have attracted interest from social scientists and legal scholars alike, existing scholarship tends to take for granted the ruling conception of a benchmark as a calculative device. …”

Missionary education, knowledge and north Indian society, c. 1880-1915 by Bellenoit, H, Bellenoit, H. J. A.

“…Indian contestations of Orientalist and Christocentric scholarship receive particular attention. The development of a secular and religiously-plural educational sphere, as a by-product of missionary education, will be investigated in Chapter V. …”

A crisis of democratic accountability: public libel law and the checking function of the press by Stephenson, R

“…After outlining its main sources and principles in our five comparators, Chapter One concludes by highlighting a more troubling concern than presently acknowledged in constitutional law scholarship. That is, the recent liberalisation of public libel doctrine appears to have happened without any 'selection theory' to justify its doctrinal variability. …”

University-firm collaboration for innovation in Chile by Rojas, C

“…</p> <p>By studying university-firm collaboration in Chile, this thesis aims at advancing scholarship in four key ways: (i) by studying university-firm linkages in a developing country that possesses comparative advantages in natural resources; (ii) by incorporating management and innovation theories in the study of innovation incentives, which, until recently, have only been studied using market failure analysis in developing country settings; (iii) by using a novel analytical approach that combines the analysis of the supply and demand sides of these linkages, while also incorporating the multi-level factors influencing them; and (iv) by assessing the impact of university-firm collaboration on the innovation performance of a sample of Chilean firms using a novel dataset specially prepared for this thesis. …”

Human nature, after all: affective realism in Russian foreign policy by Edinger, H

“…</p> <p><em>Affective realism</em> combines classical realist scholarship on human nature with research in the life sciences. …”

Beckett, with Sade: Sadean intertext and aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's works by Baroghel, E

“…While relatively little scholarship exists on this subject, the question of a Sadean presence in Beckett’s oeuvre has been drawing increasing critical attention since the publication of Beckett’s correspondence (e.g. …”

Exploring the ethics of global health research priority-setting by Pratt, B, Sheehan, M, Barsdorf, N, Hyder, A

“…In recognition of these ethical concerns and the limited scholarship and dialogue addressing them, we convened an international workshop in September 2015. …”

The city in motion by Macaulay Lewis, ER

“…Chapter one reviews the theoretical models associated with the study of movement and space in various disciplines and utilitizes these approaches to formulate the theoretical basis for this thesis. Previous scholarship on movement and space in the Roman world is also reviewed to demonstrate the need for further study. …”